The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-04

WHEN the Legislature at its last session,
authorized the purchase of temperance text
books by the state for the use of pupils in
the public schools the friends of the meas
ure, prominent among whom was Senator
Valentine, estimated the cost at $4,000,
while the opponents estimated II at $780,
600 to S40,0O0. The publishers report that
the orders are in from all the towns and
that the following are the amounts Of the
orders: OF the Pathfinder series, No. 1, for
primary department, 22,000 copies; of No.
2, for primary and grammar departments,
21,OO0 copies; of No. g. for higher depart
ments, 1900. Total, 47,30O. These, to-
gether with some other books ordered for
the schools of another firm cost about
$4,000, or $4,000 under Senator Valentines
estimate.
In the old town Of H.. in Vermont, about
the beginning of this century, lived man
named c., to whom the unique idea had oc-
CURED of following the order of the alpha
bet in naming his children. In accordance
with this plan, No. l, boy, was named
Ashley Brigham G. The brief existence of
No. was shown by her name, Death-born
Epithena. Then followed Foster Gilman,
Hilarity Juno, Kathira Lelona, Melina
Nolilla Obadiah Polander, Quiretta Rosena,
Serviah Trusty; and when this point was
reached the old gentleman died, leaving
girl without a name, and his widow finished
the list by skipping the intervening letters
and calling the unnamed baby &.-Editor's
Drdwer, in Hdrper'S Wagdzine for May.
In General.
THE debt decrease for April amounts to
S13,053,09S
SCOTLAND and Wales had a heavy snow
storm last week.
THE interstate commerce commission is in
session at New Orleans.
THE Ohio river floods have destroyed corn
which had been planted.
Eorp bupdrad nhil1ran ura OF vuit1,
measles at Madison, Wis.
DIR. PARKER of London has abandoned
the idea of visiting America.
A FIGHT between Christians and Turks at
Crete resulted in several deaths.
THE officials of the Buffalo state insane
asylum are charged with brutality.
THE CASTOR schoo-house in South Boston
was burned last week; loss $4,000
Up to April 23d, 1913 persons had fallen
victims to cholera at Santiago, Chilli
Two hundred masked men destroyed
the Paulding county Ohio reservoir.
IT is proposed to kill thousand cattle in
Chicago to eradicate pleuro-pneumonia.
THE Revere House, Boston, has changed
from the American to the European plan.
TwENTY-sIx miles of streets were under
water during the recent flood in Montreal.
RECENT rains have greatly improved the
crop prospects in Illinois and adjacent states.
The governor of Sonora denies the recent
stories of cholera on the west Mexican coast.
SCHNAEBELEs, the alleged French spy,
has been released by the German authorities.
FIVE boys were poisoned, three fatally,
by eating wild parsnips near Boonville, Ind.
A wIND-sToRM in Lake, ILL.,, destroyed
several buildings and caused the loss of two
lives.
BLACK fever and diphtheria are making
terrible ravages in the valley of st. Maurice,
Quebec.
A HAIL-sToRM in and about Duluth, Mimi,
did damage to an amount believed to exceed
$4,000.
THE Union Pacific has petitoned for a
suspension of the fourth clause of the inter-
state law.
A CHURCH, a warehouse and twelve
dwelling-houses have been burned in Kan
kakee, ILL.,
HENRY GEORGE and DR.. McGlynn have
organized an ant-poverty society in
New York.
THE burning of a grain elevator and
warehouse in Louisville, KY, caused loss
of S250,000
A sIx-sToRY factory building on Canal
street, New York, was burned Thursday
loss 100000.
CARDINAL MANNING has written an article
for the London Tablet strongly advocating
rights of labor.
GENERAL SHERMAN and Senator Sherman
have been visiting their ancestral home in
Woodbury., CT.
A PORTION of the Grant relics have been
placed on exhibition in the National Museum
at Washington.
Two immense elevators, containing grain
and hay, were burned in Louisville Mon
day; loss S500,00
A NIHILIsT printing-press has been dis
covered at Odessa, and thirty-two nihiists
have been arrested.
IT is thought that the interstate commits
sion will tell the railroads to go ahead under
the law as it stands.
ABOUT 100000 slaves have been liberated
in Brazil since 1878, or nearly one-half the
number then registered.
SEVENTEEN persons were recently lost at
sea with the schooner Flying Scud," hail
ing from Kodiak, Alaska.
THE trunk lines have acceded to Boston s
| request and reduced the rate on grain for
export to twenty-five cents.
THREE hundred Norwegians have passed
| through Chattanooga, Tenn, on their way
to join the Mormons in Utah.
THE Connecticut house of representatives
rejected the bill prohibiting the issue of
railroad passes to legislators.
A FIRE III Ine SHOPS OF a manufacturing
concern in Chicago caused loss of S135, 600
and the loss of at least one life.
| A TRAIN on the Southern Pacific, near
Tucson, Arizona, was robbed by gang, who
secured about 5000 from the express-car.
NEAR Vandalia, ILL.,, two tramps laid
down on the track in front of an approach
ing train and were mangled beyond recogni-
| ton.
| ACCORDING to the San Francisco Chronicle,
every steamer that comes from China TO the
Pacific coast brings from 300 to 1000 Chi
nese.
SEVERAL state and railroad officials in
Kansas, riding in special car, were thrown
down an embankment, but escaped serious
injuries.
THE government had but thirty-seven
majority on a vote amending the coercion
bill in the house of commons Thursday
evening.
AT White Wright Texas, three children
who were locked up by their mother while
she went to call at a neighbours were burned
to death.
MEMORIAL services in honor of Reuben f.
Fenton were held by the New York legisla-
ture last week. Chauncey NJ. Depew was
the orator.
THE bronze statue of Garfield, designed
by j. Q. A. Ward. has been placed on its
pedestal in Washington and will be I'M
yelled on May II.
THE two Healys Maurice and Timothy,
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